Board of Control for Cricket in India

In 1912, an all-India cricket team visited England for the first time, sponsored and captained by Maharaja of Patiala. In 1926, two representatives of the Calcutta Cricket Club travelled to London to attend meetings of the Imperial Cricket Conference, the predecessor to the current International Cricket Council. Although technically not an official representative of Indian cricket, they were allowed to attend by Lord Harris, chairman of the conference. The outcome of the meeting was the MCC's decision to send a team to India, led by Arthur Gilligan, who had captained England in The Ashes.

In a meeting with the Maharaja of Patiala and others, Gilligan promised to press for its inclusion in the ICC if all the promoters of the game in the land came together to establish a single controlling body. An assurance was given and a meeting held in Delhi on 21 November 1927 and was attended by delegates from Patiala, Delhi, United Provinces, Rajputana, Alwar, Bhopal, Gwalior, Baroda, Kathiawar, Central Provinces, Sindh and Punjab. A consensus was reached to create a board for control of cricket in India and on 10 December 1927, a unanimous decision to form a provisional board of control was taken. In December 1928, the BCCI was registered under the Tamil Nadu Societies Registration Act with six associations affiliated to it. R E Grant Govan was elected as its first president and Anthony de Mello as secretary.[4] Indian cricket team toured England in 1932.

With the surge of cricket in India, BCCI has become rather notorious for its monopoly and has suffered from corruption allegations.[5] The Supreme Court on 30 January 2017 nominated a four-member panel Committee of Administrators (Vinod Rai, Ramachandra Guha, Vikaram Limaye and Diana Edulji) to look after the administration of the BCCI in order to implement Lodha Committee reforms.[6] Vinod Rai, ex-CAG of India heads the four members panel to look after the administrative duties of the board until the fresh elections are called.[7][8][9] Presently Sourav Ganguly is the president of BCCI.

On 9 August 2019, the BCCI agreed to adhere to the anti-doping mechanisms governed by the National Anti-Doping Agency.[10][11]

Sunil Joshi, former Indian cricket team spinner was named as Chairman of the national selection panel by the Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC) of BCCI replacing MSK prasad in that role.

The BCCI organises the following domestic cricket competitions:

The BCCI is India's richest sporting body and the richest cricket board in the world.[12][13][14] Most other board's depend on their matches with India for the largest chunk of their income.[12] BCCI does not depend on the Government of India for its finances.[15]

In 2020, with US$405 million out of US$1534 million India had 26% share in the ICC FTP income disbursed to 10 test playing nations, while ECB received US$139 million as the second highest earner.[12]

In 2020, to revive the financial health of other boards after the global economic decline and the significantly reduced income of most boards due to the COVID-19 pandemic ICC will rejig its FTP to schedule more bilateral matches of others nations with India.[12]

The BCCI is regarded as cricket's big economic player.[16] In 2009, the ICC and BCCI were in disagreement over the WADA Whereabouts clause.[17]

In 2020-2021 fy, the total annual income of BCCI is estimated to be over INR 3730 crore (US$535 million), including INR 2500 crore (US$345 million) from IPL, INR 950 crores (US$139 million) from bilateral cricket with other nations, and INR 380 crores (US$51 million per year or total US$405 million for 8 years) from India's share of ICC revenue.[12]

In 2020, as per the present present eight-year Future Tours Program (FTP), while India receives a total of US$405 million from ICC, as contrasted with US$139 million to ECB, while US$128 million for each of Cricket Australia, Cricket South Africa, Pakistan Cricket Board, New Zealand Cricket, Sri Lanka Cricket, Cricket West Indies and Bangladesh Cricket Board, and US$94 million for Zimbabwe.[12]

From 2018 to 2022 global media rights for IPL is awarded to STAR India for ₹16,347.5 crore (US$2.3 billion).[18]

In 2010, the media rights for 25 neutral venue one-day matches to be played over the next 5 years were awarded to Zee Telefilms for $219.16 million.[19]

From 2016 to 2020 inclusive, the official kit sponsorship rights for 5 years has been awarded to Nike for ₹370 crore (US$52 million).[20] Earlier in 2019, BYJU'S became the official Indian cricket team sponsor for a period of four years at a cost of ₹1,079 crore (US$150 million).[21] For each home match BCCI makes INR 60 crore (slightly less than US$8 million) per home match under this sponsorship deal.[12]

On 12 September 2006, BCCI announced that it will spend ₹ 1,600 crore over the subsequent one year to upgrade the cricket stadiums around the country.[22]

In 2020 March, BCCI donated ₹51 crore to the PM CARES Fund to combat the COVID-19 pandemic in India.[23]

In 2018, the total amount of tax ₹462.22 crore, which was outstanding as on April 1, 2018, was cleared along with interest in September 2018 but The Department of Revenue has issued a notice for tax evasion to the BCCI. The Department of Revenue has asked the BCCI to pay another outstanding income tax worth Rs 1,303 crore, according to details submitted by the Finance Ministry in Parliament in February, 2019.[24]

Earlier in 2007-08 although the Income Tax Department withdrew this exemption, BCCI only paid tax amounting to ₹41.9 crore (US$5.9 million) against its tax liability of ₹413 crore (US$58 million) in the 2009-10 financial year[25]

In 2012, BCCI had avoided taxes on its income, claiming exemption as a charitable organisation.[26]

The current president is Sourav Ganguly who is a former captain of Indian cricket team.

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